re: Dog Killed In Boating Accident; Owners Seek FELONY Charges

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From this story, it appears that the man purposefully ran over the dog with his boat. However, this could be a fabrication of the owner.

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Yeah, I found that story a little later. Something about it just doesn't jive with me. The other driver, who hasn't made a statement to the press, is portrayed like some movie villain caricature. And if both boat engines are running and your a distance of 20 to 40 feet away, how do you hear something like, "I don't give a damn about your dog."

Then, the movie villain backs the boat over the dog to finish the job.

Keep in mind this is the same heartless man that just rescued a baby goat.

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Then a man appeared in a pontoon boat and blocked their path while asking whether Cletus was their dog, she wrote.

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“At first it appeared that the man on the pontoon boat was going to save both animals. However, after he pulled closer up he ran right over our boxer and went straight for the goat.

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The tired and now injured Cletus bobbed up out of the water after getting hit and struggled to try and climb up on the pontoon boat,” she wrote.

“My mom and our friends were yelling cut your motor off, cut (your) motor off, the man replied as he lifted the goat onto his boat, ‘I don’t give a damn about your dog,’” McGowan wrote.

She wrote that the man ignored their yells and reversed the boat, smashing Cletus with the motor and killing him in what she said a witness described as “horrific, cruel and preventable.”

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If this is true, that dude intentionally killed the dog.